30 eye-opening minimalist anecdotes

A man in Minnesota made this T-Rex from snow.

During World War II, finns used German Shepherds to send messages.

India's most dangerous mountain road is known as MDR181 and has 70 hairpin bends

A floating hotel began in Australia and drifted to Saigon, Vietnam, and now ends up in North Korea.

There's a new casino in Boston called Encore, and at the center of the casino is a luxurious room with a gold statue of Popeye in the middle, worth $28 million

For a time (1994-1996) Michael Jackson was Elvis Presley's son-in-law.

Dunes on Mars

A butcher shop in Oklahoma City with over 100 types of jerky

Zyzzyx Road is a 2006 thriller known for its lowest-grossing film of all time. It only grossed $30.

X-rays show a 16-month-old boy swallowing a SpongeBob necklace pendant.

Footage from the 1960s Batman

After the death of her husband, Marian Bevin decided to participate in a contest of "the ugliest woman in the world" and won the championship because there was no breadwinner in the family, which she later hired in a circus. In order to raise the children, she endured the ridicule of others.

In 2011, Russell Brand ended her marriage to Katie Perry in a text message and has not spoken to her since.

In 2018, a Russian criminal came up with an overall plan to paint his entire face green to avoid detection during pickpocketing. However, the 23-year-old man was quickly identified and arrested because he was the only green-faced man in the neighborhood.

In 1963, a Turkish man demolished a wall in the basement while renovating his house and discovered a mysterious tunnel leading to the hidden ancient underground city of Derinkuy. The city was once inhabited by as many as 20,000 people.

In 1962, Brendon Grimshaw from Yorkshire, England, purchased moyenne island near the Seychelles for £8,000, becoming the island's only resident. He transformed it, planting 16,000 trees and introducing various animals to the island. He lived there until his death in 2012.

Nose size is important in the world of proboscis monkeys. The bigger a man's nose, the more women he attracts.

Shiloh Pepin, a mermaid syndrome sufferer, is a rare congenital malformation named after the patient's legs fused together to take on the appearance of a mermaid's tail.

The giraffe Gemini at the Santa Barbara Zoo in California contracted a rare disease at the age of three that caused its vertebrae to fuse together. Her neck appeared curved throughout her life

A visual representation of copper ore mined from a mine

In Iceland, people without an address draw a map on an envelope and then the postman sends it to the right place...

This beetle tattoo can spread its wings

Puzzle companies use the same templates to crop their pieces

The captive killer whale TillyCombe watched its trainer. As of 2019, killer whales have killed only 4 people, 3 of whom were caused by Tillykum

In 2019, a Jamaican man wearing a screaming mask came to collect his winning $1.5 million lottery ticket because he didn't want his relatives to harass him.

Giant sandwich sold in London in 1972

Human skin pierced by a needle under a microscope

Before the advent of the polio vaccine in 1950, children were treated with iron lung

Someone made this magical eagle out of stone on a beach in Devon, England

F-35C crashed in the South China Sea